Years of denial and delay mean that there is no non-radical future available for the US. It's radical climate action or radical climate impacts. As infrastructure negotiations continue, Dems need to hold the line on ambition.
What really scares me is that the "GOP Climate Caucus" (such as it is) is going to try to present themselves as reasonable moderates by giving people happy talk about how little impact addressing climate change will have on them. Somehow, we need to shift the narrative to one of the lefties are the conservatives, since they want to preserve a livable climate, while the deniers, or newly climate-aware GOP are actually the dangerous radicals, since they want to send the climate into unknown extremes.
This is a good summary. The GOP position seems to be to do nothing, or if you must, do little, and if you do little, do make it benefit business. The issues they have are that that damn climate keeps on a'changin'. . . Worse, young people are getting upset about that, too. And, business is getting all hot and bothered about risks and regulation. What happened to business as usual?-seems to be the question of the day for the GOP. Maybe that heat dome would have been more useful if it had occurred over the other Washington - on the opposite coast?
What really scares me is that the "GOP Climate Caucus" (such as it is) is going to try to present themselves as reasonable moderates by giving people happy talk about how little impact addressing climate change will have on them. Somehow, we need to shift the narrative to one of the lefties are the conservatives, since they want to preserve a livable climate, while the deniers, or newly climate-aware GOP are actually the dangerous radicals, since they want to send the climate into unknown extremes.
Great piece. This is an ideal perspective to analyze climate policy as well as politics in the coming years.
This is a good summary. The GOP position seems to be to do nothing, or if you must, do little, and if you do little, do make it benefit business. The issues they have are that that damn climate keeps on a'changin'. . . Worse, young people are getting upset about that, too. And, business is getting all hot and bothered about risks and regulation. What happened to business as usual?-seems to be the question of the day for the GOP. Maybe that heat dome would have been more useful if it had occurred over the other Washington - on the opposite coast?